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In the 900 days Lawyer Wang Quanzhang, from Tianjin, has been in custody—since he was first detained in July 2015 in the 709 Crackdown—he has yet to be allowed to meet with a lawyer; and lawyer Li Yuhan, of Shenyang, who once represented Wang Quanzhang, was arrested in November 2017 on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking troubles.”

In this statement, lawyer Wang Yu, from Beijing, provides an account of an attempt she and several other lawyers made to urge action by the national bar and the Beijing bar on behalf of the two detained lawyers. In the morning of January 4, 2018, lawyer Wang Yu, together with lawyer Lu Tingge (from Hebei Province), lawyer Ma Wei (from Tianjin), lawyer Zhu Shengwu (from Shandong Province), and lawyer Wang Hanzhong (from Beijing), went to the All China Lawyers Association and the Beijing Lawyers Association to demand that they assume the responsibilities of defending the rights of lawyers Wang Quanzhang and Li Yuhan, and that the All China Lawyers Association establish and send an investigating team to Tianjin and Shenyang to investigate the cases.